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Minutes From SCC Meeting July26, 2005, no quorum

Portland Library, Portland CT

 

 

Attending: Barbara Barry (Greater Hartford), Mike DeRosa (Greater Hartford),
Allan Brison (New Haven), Karin Norton O’Connor (Tolland), Tim McKee
(Hamden), Kelly McCarthy (Hamden),Aaron Gustafson (Hamden), Miguel Nievas
(New Britain)

 

Facilitator: Aaron Gustafson (Tom Sevigny could not make it at the last
minute).

The meeting did not have a quorum but we did follow the agenda items that
did not require a formal vote.

 

A. Preliminaries 1-8:

 Preliminaries were done. Recent minutes were handed out but could not be
approved 

 because of lack of quorum.  The treasurer did not attend so there was no
report.

 

B. Reports:

  Chapter Reports;

  Greater Hartford: Progressive Movie Festival continues with showing of
Atomic Café

   David Ionno is running for Board of Education in Hartford. There are no
other offices  available to run for in Hartford this year because of charter
revision-4 year terms.

 

   New Britain : Chapter will be participating in the Latinos In Action
festival in Sept. 10-11

    Will have a booth.  Miguel campaign is going well.  He is getting signs
(100) plus he is 

    speaking to groups. Hartford Courant is interested in his campaign.

 

   New Haven:  Not running candidates for Alderman at this time.  Mayor
wanted Charlie 

    Pillsbury to run for alderman, Charlie turned him down.  Joyce Chen is
now running

    as a Democrat for City Council.  Joyce switched from the Green Party for
a variety of  personal and political reasons.  New Haven has a possible
Afro-American candidate for Mayor.  Chapter is very much involved in the
fight over a land grab by Yale-New Haven

    Hospital.  They want a zoning district that allows them to do most
anything they want.

    Five Hundred people recently protested against this zoning at a hearing.
New Haven is

    working with a community group from called CORD.   Discussion about
possible

    candidacy of Cliff Thornton for governor race in 2006 as a Green. He
spoke to New 

    Haven Chapter.  

 

    Manchester: Trying to update group.  The candidates in Manchester have
no real issues.

     People can’t make up their minds in Manchester about whether they want
to be a town  

     or a city.  Walmart wants to go into Vernon.  There is a lot of
opposition to this. 

     Contacts in Safford Springs are good possible coalition members.  We
discussed of the 

     relevance of the book The United States of Walmart.  Continued work on
Cable show.

 

    Hamden: Kelly McCarthy is running for city/legislative council in Hamden
(5th district).

     Campaign has started.  It is going well.  Press was good and is taking
the greens

     seriously.  New Haven Register newspaper showed up at Hamden
Convention.   Kelly’s opponent is unknown in Hamden. Kelly has a campaign
manager. Kelly was asked to run as a Democrat but she reclined.  The 5th
district is 45% unaffiliated, 45% Dem., 10% Republican.

     

Discussion about why we do not have a quorum:

Kelly said she wanted to know why we did not have a quorum.  Mike said he
thought it was because it is summer time and all meetings are off during
this period. Alan suggested that we call people.  Tim said that there is a
lot going on so people have not come.  Kelly said that she and Aaron have
worked on the re-structuring plan and cannot get it passed until

there is a quorum.  Mike suggested that we have a convention that does not
require a quorum to pass the various changes and approvals that have not
been done in the past.

 

            Voter Report: Mike DeRosa said that our Voter Verified Paper
Trail was signed by Gov.

              Rell recently and is now law.  CT has one of best auditing
systems for VVPT if not the 

              Best.  

     

 

   

   

   

 

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